{"id":4467,"date":"2022-12-19T18:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4467"},"modified":"2022-12-19T18:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:51:26","slug":"archives-1971-1972","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/archives-1971-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives 1971-1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n12th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 5, 1971 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">The Imaginary Part of the Real World<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 19, 1971 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">Empiricism at Bay?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 26, 1971 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">Scientists as Magicians &#8211; Science 1945<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 2, 1971 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">Why Settle For Anything Less Than Good Old-Fashioned Aristotelian Essentialism?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 16, 1971 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Reduction in Genetics &#8211; Doing the Impossible<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 23, 1971 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">Probability and Quantum Mechanics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 30, 1971 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">Possible Worlds: Foundations of Mathematics in Experience<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 14, 1971 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">The Explanation of Distinctively Human Dispositions: Biology and Culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 17 &#8211; February 15, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">Constructive Logic and the Philosophy of Science: A Series of 5 Lectures<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 18, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">Poincar\u00e9 on Hypotheses, Electrodynamics, and Relativity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 1, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">Disposition and Fields<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 15, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">Materialism, Properties, and Predicates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 29, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">The Logical and the Extra-Logical: Which Words are Logical Words?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 14, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">General Relativity: Some Puzzling Questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 20 &#8211; April 24, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">Problems in the Methodology of Research Programs: A Series of 5 Lectures<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 21, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor16\">Is the Transition From an Old theory to a New One of a Sudden and Unexpected Character?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 28, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor17\">Existential Hypotheses in Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 4, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor18\">Nineteenth-Century Explanations of the Nature of Chemical Reactivity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 18, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor19\">Scientific Realism and Incommensurability: Some Criticisms of Kuhn and Feyerabend<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Imaginary Part of the Real World<\/h3>\n<p>October 5, 1971<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Robert Penrose<\/strong>, Birkbeck College<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Felix Pirani<\/strong>, Kings College and Boston University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Empiricism at Bay?<\/h3>\n<p>October 19, 1971<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Herbert Feigl<\/strong>, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Ernan McMullin<\/strong>, University of Notre Dame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Scientists as Magicians &#8211; Since 1945<\/h3>\n<p>October 26, 1971<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>L. Kowarski<\/strong>, CERN, Geneva<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Emmanuel Mesthene<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Why Settle For Anything Less Than Good Old-Fashioned Aristotelian Essentialism?<\/h3>\n<p>November 2, 1971<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><b>Baruch Brody<\/b>, M.I.T.<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Joseph Agassi<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Reduction in Genetics &#8211; Doing the Impossible<\/h3>\n<p>November 16, 1971<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>David L. Hull<\/strong>, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Everett Mendelsohn<\/strong>, Harvard University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Probability and Quantum Mechanics<\/h3>\n<p>November 23, 1971<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Arthur Fine<\/strong>, Cornell University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Abner Shimony<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Possible Worlds: Foundations of Mathematics in Experience<\/h3>\n<p>November 30, 1971<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stephen Korner<\/strong>, University of Bristol and Yale University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Judson Webb<\/strong>, Boston University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Explanation of Distinctively Human Dispositions: Biology and Culture<\/h3>\n<p>December 14, 1971<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alasdair MacIntyre<\/strong>, Brandeis University and Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>John Findlay<\/strong>, Yale University and Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Constructive Logic and the Philosophy of Science: A Series of 5 Lectures<\/h3>\n<p>January 17, 24, 31; February 14, 1972<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Paul Lorenzen<\/strong>, University of Erlangen and Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Poincar\u00e9 on Hypotheses, Electrodynamics, and Relativity<\/h3>\n<p>January 18, 1972<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Howard Stein<\/strong>, Case Western Reserve University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Roger E. Stuewer<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Disposition and Fields<\/h3>\n<p>February 1, 1972<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>J. E. McGuire<\/strong>, University of Pittsburgh and University of Leeds<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Robert S. Cohen<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Materialism, Properties, and Predicates<\/h3>\n<p>February 15, 1972<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>D.M. Armstrong<\/strong>, University of Sidney<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Richard M. Rorty<\/strong>, Princeton University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Logical and the Extra-Logical: Which Words are Logical Words?<\/h3>\n<p>February 29, 1972<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Fred Sommers<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Ernest Sosa<\/strong>, Brown University and University of Michigan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">General Relativity: Some Puzzling Questions<\/h3>\n<p>March 14, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Achilles Papapetrou<\/strong>, Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9 and Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <b>John Stachel<\/b>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Problems in the Methodology of Research Programs: A Series of 5 Lectures<\/h3>\n<p>March 20, 27; April 3, 10, 24, 1972<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Imre Lakatos<\/strong>, London School of Economics and Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor16\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Is the Transition From an Old Theory to a New One of a Sudden and Unexpected Character?<\/h3>\n<p>March 21, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stanisa Novakovic<\/strong>, University of Belgrade<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>William Berkskon<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor17\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Existential Hypotheses in Science<\/h3>\n<p>March 28, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Helena Eilstein<\/strong>, University of Pittsburgh and London School of Economics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>Marx Wartofsky<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor18\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Nineteenth-Century Explanations of the Nature of Chemical Reactivity<\/h3>\n<p>April 4, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Erwin N. Hiebert<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Leonard K. Nash<\/b>, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor19\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Scientific Realism and Incommensurability: Some Criticisms of Kuhn and Feyerabend<\/h3>\n<p>April 18, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Richard Burian<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Michael Martin<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science 12th Annual Program October 5, 1971 | The Imaginary Part of the Real World October 19, 1971 | Empiricism at Bay? October 26, 1971 | Scientists as Magicians &#8211; Science 1945 November 2, 1971 | Why Settle For Anything Less Than Good Old-Fashioned Aristotelian Essentialism? 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